The Extended Canon
Chhapaak
छपाक · 2020
An acid-attack survivor rebuilds a life and takes the sale of acid itself to the Supreme Court.
- Director
- Meghna Gulzar
- Year
- 2020
- Genre
- Biography · Drama
- Cast
- Deepika Padukone, Vikrant Massey
Why it's in the canon
Deepika Padukone in prosthetics for most of the film, and a script that keeps the legal fight central.
An acid-attack survivor rebuilds a life and takes the sale of acid itself to the Supreme Court.
Chhapaak sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and 12th Fail — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Meghna Gulzar — also responsible for Talvar, Raazi.
- Released in 2020, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Biography, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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